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Currins will do ‘whatever is right’ for granddaughter

By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer

Please see CUSTODY, page 8A

Index Our Hometown . . . . . 2A Business & Farm. . . . 5A Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . 6A Light Side . . . . . . . . . 7A Sports. . . . . . . . . . 1-4B Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4C Comics . . . . . . . . . . . 5C Classifieds. . . . . . . 6-8C

Daily Dispatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE

John R. Lowery Sr., 72, looks away as nurse practitioner Mishew Gardner administers an H1N1 shot at the Vance County Health Department Friday afternoon during a walk-in clinic.

New supplies of flu vaccines ready at health departments By DAVID IRVINE Daily Dispatch Writer

The N.C. Division of Public Health warns that the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic is not over. In fact, it may be picking up speed. “If typical seasonal flu trends hold true this year, we can anticipate another increase in flu cases this winter and into the spring,” State Epidemiologist Megan Davies said. “H1N1 has been anything but typical, so it is difficult to know how long this pandemic will last.” Supplies of vaccines, which

ran short in the fall, are now available in the area, making it possible for people who missed getting vaccinated earlier to take that important step to protect their health. The Granville-Vance Area District Health Department offers flu vaccination clinics each Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. Both H1N1 vaccine and seasonal flu vaccine are available. The vaccinations may be obtained at either of the department’s facilities — 101 Hunt Drive in Oxford or 115 Charles D. Rollins Road in Henderson.

Health Director Dr. Roddy Drake says that both vaccines are recommended for anyone 6 months of age and older. Earlier guidelines restricting vaccines to priority groups have been discontinued. The flu mist is also available for healthy individuals 2 to 49 years of age. Drake added that a person, whose schedule makes a Friday afternoon visit to the flu clinic impossible, may come in at another time. “We don’t turn anyone away,” Please see VACCINES, page 4A

Slipin’ and slidin’ through the Tri-County area

Today Mostly sunny

High: 34 Low: 19

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Details, 3A

Deaths Clarksville, Va. Jackie R. Terry, 53 Far Rockaway, N.Y. Charles Boben, 86 Henderson William J. Arnold, 71 Edith B. South, 91 Newport News, Va. Callie E. Mitchell, 75 Oxford Stuart Vaughan, 73 Warrenton Sarah F. Neal, 64 Washington, D.C. Bernard Bullock, 53 Wise Blanca Cervantes, 28

Obituaries, 4A

A Vance County man plans to open a sports bar and lounge at 419 Raleigh Road. “This has been in the works for quite a while,” Danny Charles Finch Jr. told the Zoning Board of Adjustment in successfully obtaining a special use permit for the business, which will be at what was Alliance Supercenter. “We’re trying to make a community felt place, where you can still relax, get away from the day, get away from the week,” Finch said. “It’s going to be somewhere for you to go sit back, have a beverage, have something to eat, play a couple of games, talk to people.” Finch said plans include bringing in national recording artists and having outdoor festivals. Standing alongside Finch was Phillip Hill, of Warren County and who additionally will be involved in operating the business. Finch, under questioning from the Board of Adjustment, said a former local law enforcement officer will be head of security. Additionally, Finch said he and Hill will provide security and are planning to hire at least two more security guards, each of whom would rotate in and out. On weekends and when there is potentially a packed house, all Please see BAR, page 3A

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Pat and Juanita Currin

OXFORD — Pat Currin said that for he and his wife, Juanita, testifying on the witness stand to obtain full custody of 6-year-old Haley Morris was a hard experience. But, Pat Currin said that, “We absolutely felt that we were doing what we have to do for the child. And that’s what we’re committed to do, whatever is right for her.” The couple Thursday received complete responsibility for the child, who is the daughter of Pat Currin’s slain daughter, Kelly Currin Morris. Juanita Currin is Kelly Currin Morris’ stepmother. The couple had obtained emergency custody of the child before her father, Scott Morris, was booked and jailed Nov. 17 on a

Daily Dispatch/WILLIAM F. WEST

Authorities were responding to automobile wrecks as a result of icy conditions in the Tri-County area, including this accident Friday morning along U.S. 158/Oxford Loop near the intersection of Salem Road, above. The state Highway Patrol said Nora Towler was driving the 1996 Chevrolet Blazer west when she lost control and the vehicle overturned. Towler, 55, of 5517 Antioch Road, Oxford, was not charged with any offense and sustained only minor injuries. At right, a North Carolina Department of Transportation truck spreads a mixture of sand and salt on the road surface as it travels along Coopers Grove Road around 8:30 a.m. Friday. School was delayed for two hours after a winter storm moved through the area dropping a hint of snow and a little rain causing a few slick spots for morning travelers.

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Daily Dispatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE

Eat Smart, Move More challenge begins next week From STAFF REPORTS

The second annual Weight Loss Challenge has been announced by Eat Smart, Move More (ESMM) of GranvilleVance. Participation in the program can help people with good intentions but wavering determination stay true to their New Year resolutions. The 10-week program begins with a weigh-in during the week

of Jan. 11-15. It ends with a weigh-out during the week of March 22-26. To be eligible for prizes, participants must weigh in at an official site and weigh out at the same site. Registration packets may be picked up until Jan. 15 at any of the following sites: • Granville County Health Department, 101 Hunt Drive, Oxford. • Vance County Health De-

Arrest on drugs charges

partment, 115 Charles D. Rollins Road, Henderson. • Front desk, Granville Medical Center, 1010 College St., Oxford. • Front desk, South Granville Medical Center, 1614 N. Hwy. 56, Creedmoor. • Front desk, Maria Parham Medical Center, 566 Ruin Creek Road, Henderson. Please see CHALLENGE, page 8A

A 29-year-old Henderson man has been arrested during an investigation of drug trafficking in the 400 block of John Street. According to police, after a foot chase a suspect was detained. A search of the suspect turned up an amount of heroin. In connection with the investigation, the Henderson Police Department Narcotics Unit charged Justin Rashad Williams of 1114 Washington St. with: • Possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver heroin. • Manufacture of heroin. • Assault on a government official. • Resisting, delaying and obstructing a law enforcement officer. Williams is being held in the Vance County jail in lieu of $30,000 bond, pending a hearing Feb. 15 in Vance County District Court. The investigation was initiated after citizens complained of drug activity, police said. Send comments to news@hendersondispatch.com.

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Mark It Down Today Scholarship dance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Badd Boyz And Lady Badd Boyz Social Club will sponsor a Dr. Martin Luther King Scholarship Dance at The Pride Of Vance Elks Lodge from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. A donation of $10 is requested at the door. All donations go toward the scholarship fund. For more information, contact Barbara Dunston at (252) 430-6081. Deeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Music Barn â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Deeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Music Barn, 3101 Walters Road, Creedmoor, will be featuring Ace in the Hole with James Potreat at 7 p.m. For more information, call (919) 528-5878. Community dance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Epsom Country Club will sponsor a community dance starting at 7 p.m., featuring live music. For more information and directions, contact Curtis Strickland at 492-6834. Ridgeway Opry House â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Performing are Julia Morton, Jackie Turner, Joyce Chisenhall, Ronald Puett, Donnie Gillam, Matt Nelson, Evylena Norwood, Freida & Delores, Allen & Betsy Reid and The Home Folks. Guest Band: Tri-County Blue Grass. Doors open at 6 p.m. Music starts at 7 p.m. Blood drive â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The American Red Cross will sponsor a blood drive at First Baptist Church in Butner from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The brothers of the Rho Beta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. of Henderson will meet at the Western Sizzlin, 619 Ruin Creek Road, at 3 p.m. Special guest will be Betty Marrow, mother of the 2008 March of Dimes Poster Child, who is a native of Vance County and a teacher in Durham. All Alphas in the Tri-County area are invited to attend, in addition to anyone interested in the March of Dimes.

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Some â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;must haveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plants for a new landscape My regular readers will recall that my wife and I built a house about a year ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We built,â&#x20AC;? of course, means that we wrote big checks to a contractor. A year later, our yard is still a big blank slate and in desperate need of landscaping. A fellow extension agent recently warned me of the dangers of becoming a â&#x20AC;&#x153;plant Paul collector.â&#x20AC;? McKenzie Such a

person Cooperative will end Extension up with one of everything scattered randomly about the yard with no cohesion or organization. Nonetheless, there are some â&#x20AC;&#x153;must havesâ&#x20AC;? on my list that have nothing to do with sound principles of landscape design. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just have to find a place to

fit them in. â&#x20AC;˘ First is a butterfly bush (Buddleia davidii). These wonderful shrubs are true to their name, attracting swallowtails and other â&#x20AC;&#x153;winged flowersâ&#x20AC;? like no other. Older cultivars could become monstrous in size, but plant breeders have worked hard to introduce more compact versions. â&#x20AC;˘ American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) is a wonderful native shrub with striking purple berries in the winter. Who could pass that up? â&#x20AC;˘ Knockout Roses are a relative newcomer on the gardening scene. These shrub roses are nearly bullet proof, rarely bothered by black spot or bugs. Their blooming is profuse and long lasting. My only fear is that they will become so popular that some pest will discover their virtues and devour them. Oh well, I will enjoy them in the meanwhile. A variety of herbs are also necessary, though I suspect they will rarely make it to the kitchen. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll plant dill simply

Oxford City Commission â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Oxford City Commission will meet at 7 p.m. in the City Commission meeting room, 300 Williamsboro St. Retired government employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meeting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Butner chapter of the North Carolina Retired Governmental Employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association (NCRGEA) will hold its semiannual meeting at 1 p.m. in the Murdoch Chapel at the Murdoch Center Campus on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Câ&#x20AC;? Street in Butner. Guest speakers will be Toretta Snipes, senior vice president of the State Employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Credit Union (SECU), who will discuss reverse mortgages, and a representative from the N.C. Attorney Generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, who will lead a workshop and discussion on senior fraud and scams. This free meeting is open to all retired North Carolina state and local government (city/county) employees in Durham, Franklin, Granville, Nash, Orange, Person, Vance and Warren counties. Refreshments will be served. Appearance commission â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Henderson Community Appearance Commission and the Vance County Appearance Commission will meet jointly at 3 p.m. in the City Hall conference meeting room on Rose Avenue. Mental health meeting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Five County Mental Health Authorityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Consumer and Family Advisory Committee (CFAC) will meet at 6 p.m. at the Vance-Granville Community College, Warren campus, Building 4, Room W432, 210 W. Ridgeway St., Warrenton. Consumers can sign-up to discuss issues with the CFAC from 6:15-6:30 p.m. The committee meets monthly to assist in developing and revising the mental health plan that drives mental health, developmental disability and substance abuse services for the five-county area. For more information, call 4301330, ext. 3035 and ext. 3050.

for the green and yellow caterpillars that devour it and then become swallowtails to visit my butterfly bush. Rosemary and sage are planted merely for their textures and scents to enjoy while weeding. â&#x20AC;˘ Blueberries are a nobrainer, among the easiest of fruit crops. And while I have space enough for a small orchard, they are still an option for confined urban landscapes. Two or four can be easily incorporated into a small yard. As an added treat, their fall color is striking. A fig bush will complement, and if the birds harvest a greater measure than my wife and I, so be it. â&#x20AC;˘ Although common, I have never had a hydrangea and have always desired one. The pink and blue flowers of the Hydrangea macrophylla are large and lovely. Perhaps an oakleaf (Hydrangea quercifolia) as well, with its striking white blossoms. Many improved cultivars are available for each. â&#x20AC;˘ Slightly less common

Miles ministry brings Christmas cheer to students at Carver Elementary

City Council â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Henderson City Council will meet at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave. Board of Education â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Granville County Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. at the school districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central office, 101 Delacroix St., Oxford. Granville Board of Education â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Granville County Board of Education will meet in regular session at 6 p.m. at the Granville County Board of Education Administrative Offices, 101 Delacroix St., Oxford. Vance Board of Education â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Vance County Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. in the Administrative Services Center Board Room, 1724 Graham Ave. Recycling meeting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Granville County Citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Advisory Committee for Environmental Affairs will meet from 4-5 p.m. in the first floor conference room of the Tobacco Research Station, 300 Providence Road, Oxford. W.W. (Billy) Yeargin III, owner of Granville Recycling Center, will make a short presentation on the operation of his metal recycling center in Oxford. Genealogical society â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Vance County Genealogical Society will meet at 6 p.m. in the N.C. Farm Bureau Room at the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library. Members please note the new meeting time.

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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Rev. John Miles presents a gift to Kamya Hargrove, a student at Carver Elementary School, as the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assistant principal, Claudette Scales, joins them prior to the Christmas holidays. Through his ministry, Miles brought gifts for several needy students at Carver to brighten their holiday season. Scales and Nekisha Williams, Carverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guidance counselor, accepted the gifts from Miles. Milesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ministry also provided gifts in mid-December for students at other local public schools.

Tips from the Vance Co. Parenting Task Force Frogs out of kitchen Pet water frogs, turtles and lizards are known sources of salmonellosis. The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advises: â&#x20AC;˘ Do not allow reptiles or amphibians to roam through the house, especially in the kitchen. â&#x20AC;˘ Do not clean aquariums

or supplies in the kitchen sink. Use bleach to disinfect a tub where reptile or amphibian habitats are cleaned. â&#x20AC;˘ Always wash hands thoroughly with soap after touching any reptile or amphibian, their housing, food or anything that comes in contact with it.

is the Sasanqua camellia. This is the fall bloomer that can tolerate full sun. Like its cousin, the Japanese camellia, Sasanqua is available in red, pink or white. Mine will likely be a specimen, although the evergreen foliage is dense enough that it can be used for screening. â&#x20AC;˘ Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) will also grace my landscape. Also known as Carolina Allspice, its deep red flowers are both striking and fragrant. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shameful that this native plant is not more widely planted. Of course, I have only scratched the surface. Perhaps â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of everythingâ&#x20AC;? isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t such a bad idea after all. Paul McKenzie, horticulture extension agent for Vance and Warren counties, can be reached at (252) 438-8188 or (252) 257-3640.

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In other business, the Board of Adjustment granted Lynwood Brooks Sr. a special use permit to open an automobile repair facility at 1343 N. Garnett St., which is in an aging area between North Beckford Drive and the Interstate 85/Bypass U.S. 158 interchange. The location was once

an automobile dealership and was later a tractor business before becoming the site of Coverall, which was in the business of making parking roofs for vehicles. The location is in a highway commercial “A” zoning district. An auto repair facility is allowed in a highway commercial “A” zoning district by a special use permit, but the problem has been that there is a radius of 500 feet from any house or residential district and that there is a residence behind the former Coverall building. The City Council on Nov. 23 voted to allow auto repair facilities to obtain a special use permit with conditions, such as the radius from adjacent properties, if they are located in any business district where they are presently allowed. Real estate agent Karen Stainback, who represents the seller of the property, told the Board of Adjustment that she and the buyer started on the matter a year ago. “And in that year’s period of time we have never had the first opposition to what Mr. Brooks is trying to do, especially the fact that this building has been vacant for close to two years or a little over,” Stainback said, adding that the building is an eyesore. “It’s going to be a nicelooking facility,” Stainback said. Brooks said he does collision repairs, plus restoration and upholstery work, and will continue to have his present shop at 132 N. William St.

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he said. Most family care physicians and pharmacies in the area are again offering the flu vaccines, Drake said. They had ceased offering flu vaccinations when supplies of the vaccines were exhausted in late fall. Warren County Health Director Andy Smith says his department also has H1N1 vaccine available but no seasonal flu vaccine. The vaccine may be received at the department’s 544 West Ridgeway St. office between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. any week day except Thursday. The symptoms of H1N1 flu, also called swine flu, are similar to the symptoms of seasonal flu — fever greater than 100 degrees, headache and body aches, stuffy nose, sore throat, cough, chills and fatigue. H1N1 first made its appearance last spring. Because it was a new virus for which there was no vaccine, it caused great concern in the medical field. The vaccine became available in limited quantities in the fall when, as feared, a second and more widespread outbreak of H1N1 flu occurred. Since its arrival in April, the H1N1 flu has claimed 79 lives in North Carolina. Unlike seasonal influenza, which can be deadly for elderly adults, H1N1 flu has disproportionately affected children and middle-aged adults. January is usually the peak flu season, the division notes, advising residents of the state to take precautions to protect themselves from the disease. In addition to getting immunized, medical authorities advise individuals to: • Avoid close contact with people who are sick. • Stay home when you are sick. • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. • Wash your hands frequently. • Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. • Get plenty of sleep. • Drink plenty of fluids and eat nutritious food. Contact the writer at dirvine@ hendersondispatch.com.

HENDERSON — William Jeffries “Foots” Arnold, 71, of 656 Eaves Road, Henderson, died Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, at Maria Parham Medical Center. Born in Franklin County, he was the son of the late Troy and Pearl Pendleton Arnold. Mr. Arnold was a retired mechanic. He was a veteran of the United States Army. Memorial services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Flowers Funeral Chapel, conducted by the Rev. Bobby Murrell. Surviving are his wife, Jane Ayscue Arnold; two daughters, Becky A. Lehue of Nashville, Tenn., and Sandy A. Leggett of South Carolina; a son, Robert Lynn Arnold of Elizabeth City; two step-daughters, Kay Long of Henderson, and Jo Ann Grapevine of Tampa, Fla.; three step-sons, Phillip White of Baltimore, Md., Dale Dunn of Henderson, and Danny Dunn of Roxboro; two sisters, Eunice Vinson of Youngsville and Diane Tilton of Louisburg; two brothers, Dan Arnold of Justice and Clifton Arnold of Zebulon; 20 grandchildren and 32 greatgrandchildren. The family will receive friends at the home, 656 Eaves Road, Henderson. Arrangements are by Flowers Funeral Home.

Charles Boben FAR ROCKAWAY, N.Y. — Charles Boben, 86, of Far Rockaway, N.Y., formerly of Warren County, N.C., died Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010, in New York. Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at Boyd’s Funeral Service Chapel in Warrenton. The Rev. Preston Williams officiated and burial followed in the Union Chapel Church Cemetery in Ridgeway. He is survived by his daughter, Gloria Boben Clark of Roanoke, Va.; his son, Raymond Boben of Long Island, N.Y.; nine grandchildren; 26 greatgrandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Martha Ingrim of Kentucky and Doreen Shepard of New York; and a brother, Virdiar Boben of

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Bernard Bullock WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bernard “Duck” Bullock, 53, a native of Henderson, died Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, in Washington, D.C. He was born in Vance County and was the son of Annie Bullock and the late Eulysses Bullock. He graduated in 1975 from Vance Senior High School and was a former member of Spring Street Missionary Baptist Church where he was a member of the male chorus. He was a former employee of Saint Gobain Containers. Survivors include three children, Waakiya Pittman, Jennelle Bullock and Bernard Bullock II, all of Maryland; his mother, Annie Bullock of District Heights, Md.; two grandchildren; four sisters, Belinda Anderson, Patricia Bullock, Alice Bullock and Bonita Bullock, all of Maryland; and a brother, Samuel Bullock of Maryland. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church of Marshall Heights, 4934 “B” Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. Arrangements are by Taylor Funeral Home of Washington, D.C.; phone, (877) 884-0803. Local announcements are by Davis-Royster Funeral Service.

Blanca Cervantes WISE — Blanca Cervantes, 28, of 1466 U.S. 1, Wise, died Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, at her residence. Funeral services are incomplete at this time, but will be announced later by Boyd’s Funeral Service of Warrenton.

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HENDERSON — Edith Baker South, 91, of 237 Willowood Drive, died Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, in a local nursing home. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at North Henderson Baptist Church by the Rev. Brent Kasey. The family will receive friends immediately following the service in the fellowship hall of North Henderson Baptist Church. At other times they will be at the home of Bob and Sandra Catherwood at 237 Willowood Drive. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the North Henderson Baptist Church, 1211 N. Garnett St., Henderson, N.C. 27536. Other arrangements will be announced by the J.M. White Funeral Home.

Jackie R. Terry CLARKSVILLE, Va. — Jackie Ray Terry, 53, of 85 Epps Fork Road, Clarksville, Va., died Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, at Universal Health Care in Oxford. The family will receive friends at the residence of Evelyn Hanks, 65 Rev. Henderson Road. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Davis-Royster Funeral Service.

WARRENTON — Sarah Ann Fuller Neal, 64, died Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, at Duke University Hospital. A Warren County native, she was born April 2, 1945, to the late William Louis Fuller Sr. and Mary Anna Weaver Fuller. Her husband, Edgar “Skeeter” Neal, also preceded her in death in 2008. Mrs. Neal was employed by the U.S. Postal Service for over 31 years before her retirement in 2000. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Providence United Methodist Church by the Revs. Eric Schubert and Dudley Neal. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. versity of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill. He was the son of the late Rufus Elmo and Frauline Jones Vaughan. He was a member of Enon Baptist Church, where he served as deacon and chairman of the cemetery committee, and was a veteran, having served in the U.S. Army. He was a member and past master of Oxford Masonic Lodge 122 A.F. and A.M. and Oxford York Rite Bodies, Sudan Shrine Temple of New Bern and Granville County Shrine Club, where he served as secretary. He was a former partner and vice president and secretary of GentryNewell and Vaughan Funeral Home where he served for 45 years. He was also a member of the Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce and a member

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President Barack Obama finishes his statement to reporters Friday in the East Room of the White House in Washington about green jobs and manufacturing. batteries and other green technologies. The money will come from last year’s $787 billion stimulus program. He also renewed a call by former Vice President Al Gore for Congress to approve an additional $5 billion to help create more such jobs. Obama said the tax credits would create some 17,000 green jobs. Trying to paint the White House as fighting to rebuild the economy, officials said the poor jobs report underscores the challenges the president faces. “Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future,” Obama said in a brief lateafternoon statement. “The Recovery Act awards I am announcing today will help close the clean energy gap that has grown between

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Eat smart, move more Take it off! Take it all off! We’re talking about those extra pounds we may be carrying, of course. The Second Annual Eat Smart, Move More Granville-Vance Weight Loss Challenge — a mouthful of a name for a contest, isn’t it? — is calling us to push away from the table and to push ourselves into more physical activity. More than 1,000 participants lost a total of 4,958 pounds during the inaugural 10-week challenge last year. Nearly 300 of the individuals who participated in the event trimmed 10 pounds or more from their weigh, and 88 percent of the team members said they increased their physical activity. The challenge, which starts with a weigh-in on Monday, is a team-oriented event open to all residents or workers in Granville and Vance. You have to be 18 or older to participate, but the sponsors — the Granville-Vance District Health Department, Maria Parham Medical Center, Granville Health System, the Henderson Family YMCA and other partners — hope that by targeting adults with the challenge they can positively impact all members of a family. The goal is to have a team of four adults lose 10 pounds per person over the 10-week period. It’s a smart move — and a necessary one. The N.C. Division of Public Health tells us that two-thirds of all adult North Carolinians are overweight or obese. Our state ranks fifth worst in the nation for childhood obesity. We all should be concerned about our health and the health of our children because obesity can seriously increase the risk for medical problems and, health officials say, it’s associated with excess morbidity and mortality. Four of the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S. are related to obesity, including coronary heart disease, type II diabetes, stroke and several forms of cancer. Obesity can also make problems like hypertension and arthritis even worse. That should be enough to scare us into signing up for this year’s challenge with our friends, family or co-workers. But, just in case we need more incentive, the event also offers prize money to be shared among teams and individuals who meet their goals. The best prize from the Weight Loss Challenge, of course, is a longer and healthier life — for us, our families and our friends. There’s no time like the present to take the challenge to eat smart and move more.

Quotable “This is not a case of mistaken identity or a whodunit. For the defense, it’s damage control.” Joseph Niskar, defense lawyer, on the prosecution of would-be airline bomber Farouk Abdulmutallab. “I couldn’t ask for a better neighbor. We never had any problems with him.” Glennon Meyer, on Timothy Hendron of Webster Groves, a St. Louis suburb. Hendron has been widely identified as the gunman in a fatal shooting spree at a St. Louis industrial plant.

The astonishing thing is that he did it even after. Even after news broke that he had brandished guns in the locker room of the NBA’s Washington Wizards at a Dec. 21 practice. Even after meeting with federal prosecutors and local police investigating his violation of the city’s gun laws. Even after being criticized by the Rev. Al Sharpton, NBA legend Karl Malone, and an army of fans, sports columnists and TV commentators. Even after apologizing to his team, his fans and the NBA and saying he understood the seriousness of the matter. Even “after” all that, Gilbert Arenas somehow managed to take a disaster and make it worse. It happened last week in Philadelphia. Every team has its pregame rituals: some chant, some dance, some box or high five. With his career and even his freedom hanging in the balance for a misadventure with guns, Arenas stood at the center of his team’s huddle, made his hands into pistols, and pretended to shoot his teammates. In a widely circulated photo of the incident, he’s laughing

and they are, too. But NBA Commissioner David Stern didn’t get the joke. Stern, who had said he would delay judgment until authorities finished their investigation, promptly handed down an “indefinite” suspension without pay. Arenas, said Leonard the comPitts missioner, is “not curDistributed by rently fit” Cagle Cartoons to play. The All-Star guard is in the midst of a contract worth $111 million. The Washington Post calculates that he will lose $147,000 for each game he sits. The speculation is that he could be sitting the rest of the season — or longer. Which will leave him plenty of time to make his court dates. This all reportedly grows out of an incident on the team plane wherein Arenas ribbed a teammate, Javaris Crittenton, for losing money in a card game. Crittenton took exception and the argument esca-

lated with him half-jokingly threatening to shoot Arenas in the surgically repaired knee that sidelined him most of the last two years. Two days later, Arenas hauled out four unloaded pistols, which he says he kept in his locker because he didn’t want them around his children. He placed the guns near Crittenton’s locker with a note: “Pick one.” Arenas, a free spirit and self-described “goofball,” says this was meant as a joke. Crittenton didn’t laugh. According to eyewitnesses, he produced his own gun and loaded a clip. Crittenton denies it. And here, it seems worthwhile to offer a reminder: the leading cause of death for black men 15 to 34 is homicide, usually by gunfire, usually at the hands of another black man. Arenas is 28, Crittenton, 22. Both are black. Granted, stupidity knows no color. And yet ... it is difficult to think of these two guys whipping out guns like something out of Dodge City and not see shadows of all the other men of the same heritage and age group who once were here but now are gone because they regarded guns in the same profoundly

unserious manner. Because they saw them not as tools of hunting or self-defense but, rather, as toys — as argument settlers and point makers, as extensions of their personal reproductive gear, as a means of demanding respect. We have paid the price for that idiotic mindset in funerals. Funerals, an endless string. So it is troubling to see these two boy men unable to let it go, even in the midst of lives most people would consider wildly successful. And it is downright appalling that Arenas could not grasp the seriousness of the matter even with his very future at stake. A gun is not a joke. Maybe he gets that now. But look at what it cost him to learn: his livelihood, his reputation, maybe his freedom. But even at that, you could argue that Arenas is a lucky man. Some of us have seen funerals in an endless string so we know: It could have cost him a whole lot more. Leonard Pitts is a columnist for the Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla., 33132. Readers may contact him via e-mail at lpitts@miamiherald. com.

Other Views Star quality for adult-care homes Although the state of North Carolina has been issuing “star” ratings for adult-care homes in a more complete way for the last year, 2010 promises a stronger, and for those families who need to find a home for a loved one, more informative rating system. Tougher standards will take into account, for example, past penalties that have been imposed on homes for everything from relatively small safety standard violations to outright neglect. This is important. Last year, the star ratings didn’t take penalties into account. Now they will, and a home that has had problems will likely be penalized for them when it comes time to be rated by the state. Lou Wilson, a lobbyist for long-term care facilities, has argued over many a legislative session that the homes, opportunity for the president. most of which receive state With no loss of life, systemic money for taking care of the and human errors were reelderly and disabled, have vealed and can now be fixed. been underpaid for doing so. And they must be fixed. She has noted the responWe need to move forward sibilities are great, and as with a comprehensive stratmore and more people with egy to connect our intelligence chronic illnesses rely on dots. We can already see that the homes, it becomes an tremendous strides have been increasingly expensive and made since the disastrous labor-intensive business. intelligence failure of 9/11, Certainly compensation is but we learned two weeks ago something the state has to that we have not come far monitor, although brutal enough. Whatever motivation budget times won’t offer or resources are required, we much hope for more pay need to improve our intellianytime soon. gence and make full use of it, The most important step rather than letting cases like for now, and the legislature Abdulmutallab’s fall through has recognized it with these the cracks. new rules for ratings, is It would be all too easy to making sure that family blame this on poor screening members who are looking at airports here and overseas, for a place for their mother and to reactively devote all or grandmother or someone our energies to bigger and betwith a profound disability, ter checkpoint technologies. can get all the informaTo some measure, some of tion they want and all they these recommended upgrades need. may be appropriate. But the The star rating system greatest challenge will be for is now in full effect, with the president to take a step homes’ records taken into back and look at the entire account and much informasystem with all its moving tion available on a host of parts and streamline the Web sites. process. In doing, he must act And those who have had with the conviction that the no experience in making threat is imminent and real. this kind of decision would It’s time to step up to the be smart to visit any homes plate, Mr. President. You they are considering and signed up for this job, and we give them a careful oncecan’t afford any more of your over. on-the-job training. Stars are fine and the system is good, in other Mike Reagan, the elder son words, but families need to of the late President Ronald do some of their own “ratReagan, is chairman and presing.” ident of The Reagan Legacy Foundation (www.reaganlegacyfoundation.org). The News & Observer, Raleigh

Terror in the skies requires action here on the ground This country is on alert now in a way it has not been for almost nine years. Between the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack, the bombing of the CIA headquarters in Yemen, and near-daily airport scares, we have been forcefully reminded that a real war against terror continues to be waged here at home and abroad. And even as I applaud Americans for not letting recent events unduly disrupt their lives and thereby giving the terrorists a minor victory, I remain deeply concerned about the current state of our homeland security. Shortly after the incident on Northwest Flight 253, Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano first insisted that “the system worked” regarding the Christmas Day attempt. This particularly blatant act of defensive self-protection was such an obvious falsehood that Counterterrorism Czar John Brennan has had to go from news show to news show offering a retraction. This bumbling effort is not exactly the type of first response that Americans should expect from those tasked with protecting our country. Indeed, as the days progress, we are beginning to see just how great a retraction was needed. American authorities knew, before he ever boarded that plane, that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had extremist views and received training from Al Qaeda. In an act of tremendous courage, Abdulmutallab’s own father apparently had report-

ed him as a person of concern to the U.S. embassy and CIA station chief. Abdulmutallab was on a government watch list. He had been spending time in a country with known terrorist activity. With proper communication between security and counterterrorism agencies and proper scrutiny, this young Michael man would Reagan have been put on a Distributed by high-priorCagle Cartoons ity list. At the airport, he would have been flagged, he would have been searched, and he would have been caught. Instead, it is only through the grace of God and the courage of a passenger that the lives of over 200 were saved this Christmas. In Afghanistan, we were not so fortunate, and seven American operatives were killed. We do not have to live in fear in order to be smart about the dangers. We do not have to be an international bully to rightfully assert our position and interests around the world. The Obama administration, however, cannot seem to get a handle on the wide middle ground between “fear-mongering” and cowering in submission. In many ways, this Christmas Day attempt is a great

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